Nail for boots or shoes



(No Model.)

0. W. GLIDDEN. NAIL FOR'BOOTS OR SHOES.

No. 408,173. Patented July 30, 1889.

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CHARLES XV. GLIDDEN, OF LYNN, MASSACHUSETTS.

NAIL FOR BOOTS OR SHOES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 408,173, dated July 30,1889.

Application filed August 20, 1888. Serial No. 283,196. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that 1, CHARLES V. GLIDDEN, of Lynn, county of Essex, Stateof Massachusetts, have invented an improvement in Nails for Boots,Shoes, &c., of which the following description, in connection with theaccompanying drawings, is a specification, like letters 011 the drawingsrepresenting like parts.

This invention has for its object the production of an improved nail, ithaving a tapering clinching-point.

My invention consists, essentially, in a cut nail, ithaving a bevelpoint extended from one to its opposite edge, whereby the nail is madeto clinch in the direction of its width.

Figure 1 represents a piece of nail-plate of uniform thickness, it beingmarked to show the lines in which it will be cut to form nails. Fig. 2shows a nail separated from the plate, and Fig. 3 shows the end of thehead of the nail.

In accordance with my invention'a plate of metal a, of uniform thicknessand of a width corresponding with the length of the nail to be made, issubjected to the action of dies, which cut the same into nails on thelines shown in Fig. l, forming without Waste nails of substantiallyuniform. thickness, but having broad oblong heads 2 and points 3, whichtaper from one to the opposite straight edge 4L and 6 of the nail, sucha point,. the

apex of which is located at one side of the longitudinal center of thenail, causing the nail to always bend or clinch in the direction of thewidth of the nail and in the same direction.

One edge 6 of the nail, from the head to the commencement of the taperfor the point, is preferably substantially straight, and the oppositeedge 4: of the nail, from the base of the tapering head of the nail tothe apex of the point, is also, preferably, straight to its oppositeedge down to the spot 5, the commencement of the incline to form thebevel point.

It will be seen that the taper 7, forming one side of the head, is atthe edge of the slugging heels of boots or shoes and to other work wherea light nail or brad is applicable.

The nail herein shown may be produced at the minimum of cost for stockand labor.

I claim- The herein-described out nail, it comprehending a metal body ofuniform thickness from end to end, including the fiat head and point,the said body being tapered outwardly at one end, as at 7, along oneedge thereof, to form a head, and being tapered inwardly, as at 8, nearits opposite end along one edge to form a point, all substantially asdescribed.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in thepresence of two subscribing witnesses.

CHARLES W. GLID DEN. lVitn esses:

H. P. FAIRFIELD, O. H. BENJAMIN.

